WARNING: This movie contains explicit material, and the screenshots below may not be suitable for anyone under 18.

After being tricked by her friend and forced to pose for a porno magazine, Nami Tsuchiya (Jun Izumi) struggles through everyday life resenting herself. She begins a relationship with a married coworker while being stalked by a guy who fell in love with her through her porno magazine. She slowly begins to spiral into a web of sexual discovery.

If the name doesn't give you a clue, Red Porno is one of the more raunchier entires in the Angel Guts series. A good 90% of the movie someone is either masturbating or having sex. Despite this, like most pink films, the storyline is pretty decent. I have seen better, and I have seen worse. There is not much to Red Porno's plot, just a basic sexual awakening story. The story is well done when it slips in between all the sex. It is so interesting that Japanese sexploitation can still deliver a story that can delve realistically into the human mind. If you look past the forgivable "this is a pink film and the characters are going to do something completely baffling" parts of the movie, the main character, Nami, reacts in reasonable ways. She's scared and confused and doesn't know what to think about the stuff going on in her life. She constantly says she is not "that type of woman", the women in porno mags. And while she is completely distraught over being forced into the photo shoot, she is also intrigued with the concept. She goes through a lot of emotions not unlike a rape-victim. And she was raped at the photo shoot. Not penetrated, per se, but raped nonetheless.

I have to give Red Porno, and pink movies like it, credit. How they can be tastefully raunchy but not show the nethers is beyond me. What I especially liked is how Red Porno did not use the "vagina light explosion" or the blur effect a lot of films of this ilk use. Instead it either did everything over panties (with over exaggerated moistness) or carefully positioned ass shots to where you don't see anything. Although, why I am dissecting the way they show their raunchiness is beyond me. Especially when this goes through one chick's head while masturbating: "Oh yeah, getting down to business. Oh...? What is this? A random egg on the table? That gives me an idea...."

That is pretty much all of the seriousness I can say about this movie. The rest is all out sexploitation madness. Every character in this film should get some sense knocked into them. Sometimes they just make no goddamn sense. The married man Nami hooked up with is one of the least sexiest men I have seen. He did have the greatest quote to say randomly during sex: "We're in a hotel room on the 32nd floor. If an earthquake hits, we'll die together." Um... thanks? This guy is an expert of doing everything wrong, and if he wasn't such a douche it would be outright hilarious. It is very sad he gets laid multiple times. Nami also has the worst friend ever. Her friend tricks her into a photo shoot where she is stripped nude and is tied up against her will. Later she mentions "Nami's not after money. She did it because she trusted me." in a happy tone with Nami sitting next to her, like it was something perfectly normal that friends do. Besides Nami, the only person I somewhat felt for was the stalker dude. He was just an incredibly confused man, and if he wasn't as creepy as he was I would have been rooting for him. Lines like this didn't help: "I can understand why you are worried because perverts might call you or write you letters, but I'm not like that" No... you're just stalking her.

I don't think I can recommend Angel Guts: Red Porno to most people. Even you're really into the pink sexploitational films, there are better ones out there. It is amazing how a movie mainly consisting of sex can still realistically delve into a human's mind, but in the end it is still a movie that mainly consists of sex. Nothing wrong with that.

What I liked: Seeing how raunchy they could get without showing the nether regions or resorting to vagina light explosions; laughing at how dumb these people could be.

What I didn't like: I am really afraid of the search terms that will land people to this page....

What I've learned: Be leery of the chick with a random chicken egg on her desk, and steer clear of her pencils; No one asks women on a date, they just tell her where to meet them and then leave without hearing the woman's response; when hiding in the bathroom from a stalker, waiting 2 seconds after he finishes talking to you is a perfectly reasonable amount of time to check if he is still there.

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